Learning English with Angelo: March 2014

Monday, March 24, 2014

Practice your English with your favorite tunes!!!

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Subject Pronouns Lesson - from Learn English with Jennifer

Lesson 18 - Subject Pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, they) - Learn English with Jennifer

Cognates

Cognates are words in different languages that are similar in spelling. They can be TRUE or FALSE.

True cognates have the same meaning in both languages, whereas false cognates have different meaning.

For example: the words NAÇÃO and NATION are similar, so they are COGNATES. They have the same meaning, "A large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular state or territory (1)". So they are true.

Some books call cognates "friends", so they can be "true friends" or "false friends".

As English and Portuguese share about 58% of their vocabulary, i.e. 58% of English and Portuguese words are similar, and only 1,8% of these cognates are false, using cognates is a tool or strategy that you can use to improve your vocabulary, or, in case you forget, you can try to use a cognate - you have 98% of chances to be right!!!

(1) Oxford Dictionaries. Available at <http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/nation>

TASK

Here's a task for you:

Watch this PowerPoint presentation and make a list of cognates from all the categories shown in the presentation

_dade _ty

cidade city

velocidade velocity

etc

_ção _tion

simplificação simplification

nação nation

etc

Here's the link to the PowerPoint presentation: